Riots in Australia

There have been riots in Australia now, in Sydney. And, surprisingly enough, nobody is searching for root causes or wondering how Australia failed those young people. Everyone - at least all the news reports I've read, and the local political leaders - is calling them "thugs", which is what they are, and not "disadvantaged young people".

One could suppose that Australians learned from the French experience and started calling things their own names. But, being cynical (oops, I mean "experienced"), I have just a slight suspicion that this is because in Australia it's "majority/white/Anglo"* thugs beating up people of Middle Eastern origin and not the other way around.

* There should be some word for them, really. "White" is the word most often used, and "Anglo" is used at least in the US, but I sort of object to using "white" to mean "white - group X" in the context of a conflict of two white groups, or "Anglo" to describe a groups that is usually rather marginally Anglo. "Non-middle-eastern whites" would be correct in this particular context, but sort of too long.